Lisa Mauro-Bracken

Teaching & Research

Teaching Interests

My teaching interests are in the arena of health and well-being across the life course and include:

• Promoting health and well-being
• Life course approaches
• Healthy Living
• Global Health and public health interventions
• Applied research and evidence based practice
• Values, attitudes, diversity and inequalities

Research Interests

Having worked internationally and with asylum seekers, refugees and migrants I have great interest in the impact of humanitarian crisis and migration on the well-being on individuals and communities.

At the moment, my research interest is around well-being but more focused on the student population. I am currently developing research in the following areas:

Professional Bodies

Professional Bodies

• Member of American Public Health Association & Royal Society for Public Health
• HEA Fellow

Publications

Thomas, Y., Frank, H., Mauro-Bracken, L., Goodall, D., Thackeray, K., & Jones, R. (2014) The value of writing groups and the barriers to writing: A response. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation 21:6, 259-259.

Mauro-Bracken L. (2008). Shaping Interculturalism for Youth work: A report on consultations for an intercultural strategy for youth work. National Youth Council of Ireland.

Presentations

Mauro-Bracken, L. & Goodall, D. (2016) The role of the Foundation Degree in enabling students to achieve work place success or progression. Presentation at University of Worcester Learning and Teaching Conference, June 2016.

McGregor, K, Mauro-Bracken, L & Anderson, J. (2016) Survival of the fittest: The impact of post-recession Britain on women and women's services. Presentation at conference: Social Justice: building a fairer, more equal society, June 2016.